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"Faith comes from hearing the message, and the message is heard through
the word of Christ" (Romans 10:17).
Here's some of what the Bible says about:
Being born again
Finding God
Knowing God
Knowing Jesus Christ
Knowing the Holy Spirit
Prayer
Being Born Again
"In reply Jesus declared, 'I tell you the truth, no one can see the
kingdom of God unless he is born again ... I tell you the truth, no one
can enter the kingdom of God unless he is born of water and the Spirit.
Flesh gives birth to flesh, but the Spirit gives birth to spirit. You
should not be surprised at my saying, You must be born again'" (John 3:3
and 5-7).
"Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! In his great
mercy he has given us new birth into a living hope through the
resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead" (1 Peter 1:3).
"No one who is born of God will continue to sin, because God's seed
remains in him; he cannot go on sinning, because he has been born of
God" (1 John 3:9).
Finding God
"God did this so that men would seek him and perhaps reach out for him
and find him, though he is not far from each one of us. 'For in him we
live and move and have our being.' As some of your own poets have said,
'We are his offspring'" Romans 17: 27,28).
"For I know the plans I have for you,' declares the LORD, 'plans to
prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.
Then you will call upon me and come and pray to me, and I will listen to
you. You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart'"
(Jeremiah 29:11-13).
Knowing God
"To whom, then, will you compare God? What image will you compare him
to? ... He sits enthroned above the circle of the earth, and its people
are like grasshoppers. He stretches out the heavens like a canopy, and
spreads them out like a tent to live in. He brings princes to naught and
reduces the rulers of this world to nothing. No sooner are they planted,
no sooner are they sown, no sooner do they take root in the ground, than
he blows on them and they wither, and a whirlwind sweeps them away like
chaff. 'To whom will you compare me? Or who is my equal?' says the Holy
One. Lift your eyes and look to the heavens: Who created all these? He
who brings out the starry host one by one, and calls them each by name.
Because of his great power and mighty strength, not one of them is
missing" (Isaiah 40:18, and 22-26).
"Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God.
Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. Whoever does not
love does not know God, because God is love" (1 John 4:7,8).
Knowing Jesus Christ
"In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word
was God. He was with God in the beginning. Through him all things were
made; without him nothing was made that has been made. In him was life,
and that life was the light of men. The light shines in the darkness,
but the darkness has not understood it. There came a man who was sent
from God; his name was John. He came as a witness to testify concerning
that light, so that through him all men might believe. He himself was
not the light; he came only as a witness to the light. The true light
that gives light to every man was coming into the world. He was in the
world, and though the world was made through him, the world did not
recognise him. He came to that which was his own, but his own did not
receive him. Yet to all who received him, to those who believed in his
name, he gave the right to become children of God — children born not of
natural descent, nor of human decision or a husband's will, but born of
God. The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. We have seen
his glory, the glory of the One and Only, who came from the Father, full
of grace and truth" (John 1:1-14).
"He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation.
For by him all things were created: things in heaven and on earth,
visible and invisible, whether thrones or powers or rulers or
authorities; all things were created by him and for him. He is before
all things, and in him all things hold together. And he is the head of
the body, the church; he is the beginning and the firstborn from among
the dead, so that in everything he might have the supremacy. For God was
pleased to have all his fullness dwell in him ... When you were dead in
your sins and in the uncircumcision of your sinful nature, God made you
alive with Christ. He forgave us all our sins, having cancelled the
written code, with its regulations, that was against us and that stood
opposed to us; he took it away, nailing it to the cross" (Colossians
1:1,5-19 and 2:13,14).
"The Son is the radiance of God's glory and the exact representation of
his being, sustaining all things by his powerful word. After he had
provided purification for sins, he sat down at the right hand of the
Majesty in heaven. But about the Son he says, 'Your throne, O God, will
last for ever and ever, and righteousness will be the sceptre of your
kingdom'" (Hebrews 1:3 and 8).
Knowing the Holy Spirit
"Now it is God who makes both us and you stand firm in Christ. He
anointed us, set his seal of ownership on us, and put his Spirit in our
hearts as a deposit, guaranteeing what is to come. set his seal of
ownership on us, and put his Spirit in our hearts as a deposit,
guaranteeing what is to come" (2 Corinthians 1:21, 22).
"You, however, are controlled not by the sinful nature but by the
Spirit, if the Spirit of God lives in you. And if anyone does not have
the Spirit of Christ, he does not belong to Christ. But if Christ is in
you, your body is dead because of sin, yet your spirit is alive because
of righteousness. And if the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the
dead is living in you, he who raised Christ from the dead will also give
life to your mortal bodies through his Spirit, who lives in you" (Romans
8:9-11).
"If you love me, you will obey what I command. And I will ask the
Father, and he will give you another Counsellor to be with you forever —
the Spirit of truth. The world cannot accept him, because it neither
sees him nor knows him. But you know him, for he lives with you and will
be in you ... But the Counsellor, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will
send in my name, will teach you all things and will remind you of
everything I have said to you" (John 14:15-17 and 26).
Prayer
"Therefore confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so
that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous man is powerful and
effective" (James 5:16).
"If you remain in me and my words remain in you, ask whatever you wish,
and it will be given you" (John 15:7 ).
"Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the
door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives; he who seeks
finds; and to him who knocks, the door will be opened" (Matthew 7:7,8).
"If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our
sins and purify us from all unrighteousness" (1 John 1:9).
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